One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.

I won't go to England because they won't let my dog in.

Once in a while, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.

I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.

To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.

I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.

For some strange reason, we believe that anyone who lived before we were born was in some peculiar way a different kind of human being from any we have come in contact with in our own lifetime. This concept must be changed; we must realize in our bones that almost everything in time and history has changed except the human being.